Cormac

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description of Beltane

festival held on the first day of May in Ireland and Scotland, celebrating the beginning of summer and open pasturing. Beltane is first mentioned in a glossary attributed to
Cormac, bishop of Cashel and king of Munster, who was killed in 908.
Cormac describes how cattle were driven between two bonfires on Beltane as a magical means of protecting them from disease before they were led into...